Endangered Status The Amber Darter is on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is classified as endangered throughout its range in Georgia and Tennessee. This small fish is known to live in a 33.5 mile stretch of the Conasauga River from Polk County, Tennessee, to Murray County, Georgia. It was also once found in Shoal Creek in Cherokee County, Georgia, but after the construction of a reservoir it was apparently wiped out there. The main threat to this species is the degradation of its habitat by reservoir construction on the Conasauga.